A higher education pedagogy for settler listening with Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12425546 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linda Daley (0000-0002-5204-7340, Twitter (United States), corresponding author), Lisa Waller (0000-0002-2689-8010, Twitter (United States)) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 441-463 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Education Pedagogy & Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1071-4413 • E-ISSN: 1556-3022 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10714413.2024.2344140 |
| OpenAlex | W4395447772 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 31 |
This article focuses on a higher education pedagogy of reading the exemplary novel of Indigenous Australia, Carpentaria (2006) by Waanyi author, Alexis Wright.The multiply awarded and multiply translated novel gives an epic view of contemporary Aboriginal life.Its dramatization of listening relations is profoundly insightful for the current historical moment in Australian Indigenous-settler relations.Our pedagogy of settler listening emerges from the invitation by the Indigenous signatories to The Uluru Statement from the Heart ( 2017) calling on all Australians to aim for a "better future" for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.Our pedagogy has even more relevance since the defeat of the 2023 "Voice" referendum that symbolically and practically aimed to ensure that better future through a permanent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advisory body to parliament.We describe our pedagogy through the scholarship in political listening studies and the "ethics of reading" the combination of which engenders responsiveness and responsibility in a reader that is potentially (trans)formative of relationality.We argue that when higher education curriculum is attentive to pedagogies of listening relations to marginalized voices, the conditions for settler listening are being achieved both within higher education and beyond.We all need to listen well, for the voices of Australia that speak, the voices that should speak softly, have no qualms in telling us to give up our culture and assimilate.(Wright, 2002) No one is listening to us.What we want.How we want to live.What we want in the future for our children.It's for these reasons that I started to paint.I want government to listen to Aboriginal people
Active listening · Art · Art history · Carpentaria · Pedagogy · Sociology · Wright · Communication · Digital Storytelling and Education · Geology · Oceanography
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Questioning Indigenous-Settler Relations
Mohawk Interruptus
The Singularity of Literature
Beautiful Risk of Education
The Dissonance of Democracy
An Indigenous Grand Narrative Voice
Living, breathing settler-colonialism
The Gulf Country
What’s happening to our universities
Alexis Wright’s Fiction as World Making
The Work and ‘Architecture of Listening’
Ways of knowing, being and doing
The listening cure
Between listening and understanding
Courageous listening, responsibility for the other and the Northern Territory Intervention
Rethinking the politics of voice
Ethos at stake
Indigenous Literature and the Extractive Industries
Disciplining the Savages, Savaging the Disciplines
Dreaming of Others
Decolonizing Methodologies
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |